The Senate is signaling it won’t approve the plan, and Governor Wolf removed any shadow of a doubt about his intentions when he wrote to House members and told them a partial budget plan would be swiftly rejected if it landed on his desk.
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When House members returned to the floor late Tuesday, a temporary rule change was voted on and passed to allow the House to consider an earlier version of Senate Bill 1073.
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Leaders of the Senate’s Republican majority have said the only way they would agree to the larger spending number and new taxes would be if they can deliver significant pension reforms to the state’s taxpayers.
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In a brief Appropriations Committee meeting Monday, House Republicans defended the short-term spending plan as the responsible thing to do for social services crippled by the cutoff in state aid and school districts that have discussed staying closed after the winter break to avoid borrowing more money.
Wolf’s office said Friday it had gotten enough support from Democrats and moderate Republicans to pass the as-yet unwritten tax legislation, over the opposition of House Republican leaders.
Tuesday’s vote only moved the full spending plan from second to third consideration voting, which could take place when the House returns to session Wednesday at 9 a.m. It is expected to be approved, albeit by the slimmest of margins, after Tuesday’s voting, and could end up on the governor’s desk shortly thereafter.
Pennsylvania is one of just two states along with IL still fighting over a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1.
Although local state legislators had hoped that Gov. Tom Wolf would accept parts of an 11-month so-called “stop gap” budget, the governor said Tuesday he would veto in its entirety any stop-gap budget bill. “Pennsylvania remains without a budget”. It is close to breaking its modern-day record – Wednesday, Dec. 23 – for a budget fight, set in 2003 by another first-year Democratic governor, Ed Rendell, and a Republican-controlled Legislature.
Following a somewhat chaotic afternoon of procedural maneuvering on the state House floor, a potential resolution to Pennsylvania’s long-running budget impasse appears to be back on the table.
Pashinski took issue with the Republican “claim to fame” to pass state budgets on time without tax increases.
$100 million cut to home and community services. A Saturday vote on a key pension reform provision failed – four of nine Chester County State Representatives voted against the measure – wrecking a tentative budget deal.
Layoffs in state government could soon occur, Corman said, warning that a deadline is also approaching for the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program that funds private school scholarships. We have got to make sure the math actually works.
“Their actions are reckless and irresponsible”, he said.
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“A stopgap budget does not change the status quo that Harrisburg has accepted for too long”, a Wolf news release stated.
